Customer Reviews

VIZIO M420SV 42 Inch Class Edge Lit Razor LED LCD HDTV with VIZIO Internet Apps

5 star:		(23)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I spent months looking for a TV and finally found this one. After comparing different models i decided on this one for the price. The LED LCD screen at 42" is big enough for all your needs, home theater, casual watching, video games. its excellent, the TV is light and thin due to it being a flat screen and all :P. easy to use menu and set up. the only downside is you cannot turn off the WiFi on it. which tbh isnt really a down side. ive owned it for 2 months now and love it, so my suggestion if you are looking for a TV this is the one

i purchased this 42" vizio tv a couple of weeks ago and so far i am very happy. it has great color i love the internet apps, the high def looks great and even the 3d is stunning. after much research, i found the amazon price very reasonable compared to other vendors, especially considering the fact that i did not have to pay any sales tax and shipping and handling were free. setup was basically easy (i am not real technically inclined) and we had the tv up and running within 20 or so minutes.

i have a few minor complaints but still feel this tv warrants five stars. they are:

1. the sound is not the richest, but most flat screens will have sound which is inferior to a home theater system. thus, i purchased a sony home theatre for my visio and am very happy. cost of the home theater from amazon; $257.

2. the tv takes a little while to come on. i don't know if that is particular to this brand/model since this is the first flat screen i have owned.

3. if you have little children, the tv base that comes with it is not real stable and the tv could possibly be tipped easily. of course if you are hanging it on a wall, this is not an issue. be sure to have your tv on a solid level stand so it will not tend to tip.

other than that i am very pleased with the quality and price of my new tv. now i just hope i don't become a couch potato and gain 50 pounds with my new little toy.

oh yes, one idea i've tried which i really like. i've been storing tons of digital photos on a couple of computers for years. they were really not organized much and i seldom viewed them. since the vizio will play photos or music from its usb ports, i purchased a 16 mb thumb drive and put literally thousands of photos on it, arranged in various folders. i plugged my thumb drive into the usb port on the side of my vizio, and now i can watch a slide show right in my living room any time i want.

the only thing i was disappointed in is vizio will not play videos on removeable drives. but i purchased a western digital media player (a little black box with a remote; model # WDAVNOOBN) to plug into vizio's hdmi port. that will allow me to play my home videos from an external drive hooked to the media box. the western digital player only cost $39, well worth it.

hope this review helped.
dave

This is my first HDTV after looking and researching for months. There is not much bad I can say about it. Picture is excellent, price is great, and apps are a great addition to the already amazing package. Vizio has upped their game recently and this shows it. I highly recommend it.

Our huge and heavy "old-school" TV finally gave out and we had to enter the 21st century and HDTV. Did a lot of research and this looked like the best fit for us in terms of features, size and price. The picture is crisp and clear, and the colors and brilliant and vibrant. Setup was a snap. We were able to get rid of a switch box that we needed with our old analog set, and with the internet apps -- we no longer need our Roku (although we'd very much like to see Vizio extend its apps to some other services). The only disappointment was our old legacy VCR (as we've still got a few films which aren't available on DVD or streaming anywhere) which because the set has the 3 component video and not the one video RCA slot, just can't be hooked up directly. Overall, very pleased with our decision. Our living room gets a lot of light during the day, and the picture is just as great then as it is with the lights out. The low energy consumption was another plus for us, plus with the fact that we now have two fewer devices plugged in, this will additionally lower our power use. This set has brought new life to our viewing. We don't have a Blu-ray yet so all of these comments are based on viewing that isn't even at its highest resolution. People who've bought other sets have seen ours and have been impressed with the quality and said they'd look into a Vizio themselves in the future. All-in-all a terrific purchase that we have been enjoying tremendously.

After searching the market for a decent TV for a couple of months, I'm happy that finally decided to go with Vizio. Well The picture quality is perfect and competitive with Sony or Samsung. The sound quality is not perfect(like most of other lcd tvs I've seen) but good enough.
I connected the tv to wifi and streamed videos from Hulu, Netflix, Vimeo and Amazon, the quality was absolutely astounding. No lag at all.
The remote control is small and quite easy to work with at the same time.
There is only one down side to the Vizio Apps though. I haven't been able to stream Youtube videos yet.

Been searching for a bigger HDMI with excellent reviews. Saw this model at a retail store, wanted to purchase it immediately but was out of stock! (Thank you Amazon for having it.) The only downfall is no way to add more apps but eh...no biggie, I have my Roku hooked up to it. Overall....LOVE IT!

Pros:

(1) The LCD has good clarity, and detail.

(2) The LCD also looks to have a good refresh rate.

(3) The TV is very thin and light, the product page says
its 26.6lbs without the stand, and 29.5lbs with the stand.

(4) The TV's OTA HDTV tuner is very sensitive.

(5) This TV only uses around 66 watts.

Cons:

(1) On the product box and on VIZIO M420SV product page it says
"120Hz refresh rate" however the M420SV will not take 120Hz input,
they should tell you this.

(2) The Internet Apps are not very good, a few things put me off from
using them:

HD video on the internet will not play correctly on a 1.5MB connection
with this TV, and none of the Internet Apps on this TV will let you select a
lower quality version of the video to play.

And there is no way to sort or show what videos are HD, however
the "Amazon instant video" App will show "HD" at the top of its HD
video preview images, but lacks a way of sorting between HD and SD.

Many of the Internet Apps do not seem to have been well thought out,
are hard to use, or just not very good.

In the "Amazon instant video" App, they have a "Prime Instant Video" button but all
it shows are "Top Movies" and Top Shows", no sorting and no searching for
Prime Instant Videos.

"iHeartRadio" works well, however the screen stays on when playing
music, the App should turn the screen off, or have a screensaver.

There is no Youtube App.

"Yahoo News App" has no full screen function, no customization of news stories.

(3) The default picture settings looked bad to me, I found some Calibration
settings that helped a lot:

(Backlight---50) (Brightness---50) (Contrast---71) (Color---46)
(Tint---0) (Sharpness---0) (Smooth Motion Effect---Off) (Real Cinema Mode---Off)
(Noise Reduction---Off) (MPEG NR---Off) (Color Enhancement---Off)
(Adapative Luma---Off) (Film Mode---Auto) (Backlight Control---Off)
(Ambient Light Sensor---Off)

* The original calibration setting had (Backlight---100) but (Backlight---50) was
enough for me

(4) Sound quality is fair, not great, but acceptable, I ended up adding an Altec Lansing
ACS340 speaker system.

(5) The remote is small, buttons can be hard to press, and I am worried about
replacement cost should it ever break.

(6) There is no "Automatic" in the "Screen Mode" menu, the only thing I miss
from my old TV, without an automatic mode I seem to be switching the screen
mode every other show.

Conclusion:

This is a nice TV, has a good LCD and good OTA HDTV tuner, however
the "Internet Apps", and the "120Hz refresh rate" on a TV that will not accept
120Hz input, are useless gimmicks.

This is the best TV I have ever owned. The picture quality as by far the clearest and sharpest around. I work for Verizon Fios and install TV service. I see about 20 different tvs a day 5 days a week, and of all the sets ive seen nothing can come close to matching this quality. The internet app service gives me everything I need at my fingertips. The full qwerty keyboard on the reverse side of the provided remote is a big plus. Setup was a breeze and I'm all set ready to watch anything if its the big game or the news.

Happy that I've switched to Vizio. So far so good with the quality of pictures and streaming. Easy set up!!!! After moving to the city, I made up my mind to avoid the overpriced cable fees at all cost. So, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu Plus are my main sources of entertainment. To my surprise, my portable antenna also works. I could get some local channels to watch news and some tv shows (Fox, ABS, NBC). Also, watch some cable shows thru a HDMI cable connection from my laptop. More than enough.
Vizio also have regular upgrades for their apps. Not too often, but just enough (for now). I loaded up Pandora and a few others to use along with Facebook. Hope there are more to explore soon.
Remote control looks great and handy. Love it.
One thing that I found slightly annoying is the audio setup (level of volume. I saw other people also complained about it...as well as a few others who complained about the complainers. : I tried to adjust the default setup different ways...only slightly improved. I am still struggling to have a consistent volume level. Well, it's annoying especially when you stay up and watch a movie at night but don't want to wake up the whole building.

Sold by Amazon, received quickly but HDTV did not work, after Visio said parts would be 2 weeks or more, decided to return to Amazon for replacement. Replacement process was efficient, what can I say AMAZON.COM is the company I will always like doing business with, they stand behind what they sell. The second HDTV has been great, easy to setup, it has already updated the software. We had had it about 2 weeks now, we are very happy with this HDTV, good color, blacks are rich, sound is acceptable but not great. Sound must be at 100% to hear well on some shows but most programs are fine. We have enjoyed the preloaded apps. Time will tell if the reliability is as good as Consumer Reports shows (3% repair rate per 1K and it beats LG and Samsung).